Word: shibboleths
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...question has become a shibboleth: Why has the North's most violent resistance to integrated schools arisen in Boston, the place John Greenleaf Whittier called "Christian liberty's chosen home"? Alan Lupo, a onetime reporter (the Baltimore Evening Sun, the Boston Globe) and dogged historical researcher, provides some thoughtful answers...
...religious holidays" claim appears to be a shibboleth in that both Christmas and Good Friday conveniently fall within recess periods...
...author; following treatment for lung cancer; in Arola, Italy. Sheean covered many of the century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best work is his own Personal History...
LUGAR, A moderate Republican with views congruent with many in his conservative state, sees Bayh's voting record as his most exposed flank. Lugar has scored Bayh time and again on his liberal and inflationary record--coining the shibboleth of "the old politics of promise and spend, promise and spend." Indiana currently ranks 50th out of 50 in money received per capita from the federal government--in addition to last in dollars returned versus tax dollars collected. Republicans point out that Bayh, as a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, could have done better for his home state...
...subtitled "stories of men and women at love." The "at" touches the heart of these attitudes: a reflecting distance, a refusal to be swallowed up or entangled in love, but a constant keeping at it, despite difficulties, hurts, and humiliations. It is as if the old shibboleth of feminine passivity had grown into a kind of tolerance, almost stoic selectivity that helps make both men and women stronger...